12 February 2024
It's 9:30 on a freezing Monday night in January and there's a line stretching down the block outside of the Book Club Bar in the East Village of Manhattan. The occasion: a midnight release party for fantasy author Sarah J. Maas' new book, House of Flame and Shadow, the third entry in her Crescent City series. The twist-there's always a twist where Maas is concerned-Maas is on her way to surprise the throng of almost exclusively female fans willing to wait in the cold for a chance to get their hands on her book the minute it becomes available.
